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Heather R. Parker DC Metro Region • (202) 417-6690 • hrparkercareers@gmail.com • linkedin.com/in/heatherrparker • vizify.com/heatherrparker PROFESSIONAL PROFILE Seasoned campaigner, grassroots organizer, and policy advocate with 8+ years experience developing and implementing strategic organizing plans to achieve campaign goals, elect candidates, and grow movements. Skilled at movement advocacy, including: project management; legislative analysis and target identification; supporter/voter targeting; grassroots mobilization; constituency development; social media management; and activist boot camps. EDUCATION University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH Juris Doctor, May 2008 Master of Arts in Women’s Studies, June 2008

• Arthur Russell Morgan Human Rights Fellow, 2004 – 2008

• Human Rights Quarterly, Senior Articles Editor

• Law Review, Associate Member 2007

• Public Interest Law Group, Summer Public Interest Fellow 2005 & 2006)

• Law Women, chair • Law Students for Reproductive Justice

Wilmington College Wilmington, OH Bachelor of Arts in Social and Political Studies, May 2004; summa cum laude RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington and PPFA Washington, DC Lead Organizing Volunteer Feb 2012 – Present

• Help organize and participate in lobbying, phone banking, canvassing, and other efforts for prochoice issues and candidates, as well as voter registration and other GOTV efforts for the 2012 election.

• Develop and maintain interactive map of all abortion providers across the United States. • Participate in community education and outreach efforts to gain support for buffer zones in DC. • Research legal options to counter videotaping and other harassment of clinic patients and staff. • Managed outreach efforts for the largest nationwide stop of the “Women are Watching” tour in Arlington. • Testified before the Virginia Department of Health and Board of Health against TRAP regulations. • Developed testimony with the Alabama Pro-Woman coalition against HB57, and live tweeted hearings.

NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia & NARAL Pro-Choice Maryland Washington, DC Volunteer Feb 2012 –present

• Help organize and participate in lobbying, phone banking, fundraising, and other efforts to protect choice. Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) Washington, DC Campaigner Dec 2010 – Jan 2012 Volunteer (full time) May 2010 – Dec 2010

• Developed and implemented grassroots tactics using a human rights framework to urge governments to change policies to improve maternal health outcomes domestically and internationally.

o Helped design and implement a maternal health campaign spike, including six Mother’s Day cards to be signed by activists and sent to domestic and international decision-makers, engaging 1500+ groups and individuals and gaining earned media on the Today Show.

• Researched and developed training and education materials focused on economic, social and cultural rights. • Drafted strategy and planning documents, lobbying guides, campaign updates, fact sheets, web pages,

activist guides, online and offline actions, sample press releases and letters to the editor, and blog postings.

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• Supervised two to four interns, and managed internal and external project teams. • Maintained campaigns’ social media presence. • Served as a trainer and public spokesperson for the campaigns.

Legal Momentum New York, NY Legal Intern May 2007 – Aug 2007 & Jan 2008 – May 2008

• Researched and drafted memoranda on reproductive rights, domestic violence, marriage equality, and housing and employment discrimination issues.

• Tracked state and national legislation to update state law guides on the availability of the HPV vaccine and on laws protecting domestic violence survivors from housing and employment discrimination.

• Drafted two modules for a judicial education curriculum on intimate partner sexual assault.

Professor Margaret Drew, University of Cincinnati College of Law Cincinnati, OH Research Assistant Jan 2006 – Dec 2007

• Conducted legal and social science research for books and articles on domestic violence and sexual assault. Amnesty International USA, Midwest Regional Office Chicago, IL State Campaign Coordinator & Student Area Coordinator Feb 2003 – Nov 2007

• Designed, implemented, and facilitated projects for AIUSA’s Stop Violence Against Women Campaign. • Conducted campaign trainings on violence against women at local, state, and regional levels. • Coordinated two statewide conferences and served as the local liaison for a regional conference.

Gerhardstein Branch & Laufman Cincinnati, OH Law Clerk May 2005 – Oct 2005

• Researched and drafted memoranda for a civil rights firm on issues including reproductive rights, prisoner rights, and police/state official misconduct.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Robert Half International New York, NY Legal Analyst Feb 2009 – Aug 2009 Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati / UC DV Clinic Cincinnati, OH Law Clerk Jan 2006 – Aug 2006 Dr. Michael T. Snarr, Wilmington College Wilmington, OH Research Assistant Aug 2002 – Dec 2004 Quaker United Nations Office New York, NY Research Assistant Aug 2002 – May 2004

PUBLICATIONS Elise Boulding, Michael T. Snarr, and Heather Parker, Women and Development, in INTRODUCING GLOBAL ISSUES (Michael T. Snarr & D. Neil Snarr eds., 2012). NATIONAL JUDICIAL EDUCATION PROGRAM, BATTERER INTERVENTION PROGRAM MODELS AND THEIR APPROACH TO INTIMATE PARTNER SEXUAL ASSAULT (2007). Note, Access Denied: The Disconnect Between Statutory and Actual Access to Child Support for Civil Protection Order Petitioners, 76 U. CIN. L. REV. 271 (2007).